ELI5: How do websites that let you download streaming videos from sites like Youtube or Vimeo work?

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  • youtube-dl

    Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

    • They typically run something based on one of the open source YouTube downloader apps, such as YouTube-DL

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